Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…
Which birds are said to live in the tower of the poultry-house?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say, live · To what, where: birds, tower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tower | det |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 12 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 poultry | punct |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tower | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | which birds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | the tower of the poultry house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Owls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The pigeons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pigeons | det |
| 2 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Rooks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rooks | rook | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The swallows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swallows | det |
| 2 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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